Free Nights And Weekends
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GenX stories from the 1980's Oklahoma suburbs.
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S4E5 You (Still) Gotta Walk Before You Can Whine About It For 40 Years
Send a textPicture it: a dusty Oklahoma road, where oil wells nod approvingly and cows side-eye your blisters. Join Scott and Eddie as we flashback to a time when the entire school district—from…
S4E4 Calculator BOOBS to Chatbots | Gen X and the AI Craze
Send a textThis week, Scott and Marc tackle the latest cultural panic: artificial intelligence.On this very special episode, Arnold Drummond doesn't get diddled at the bike shop but big stuff is…
S4E3 The Book Box
Send a textBefore Amazon wish lists and two-day shipping, there was a thin paper flyer, a crumpled order form, and a check your mom wrote with mild suspicion. The Scholastic Book Club wasn’t just…
S4E2 ...Escaped The Surly Bonds Of Science Class To Go Run Laps In Gym
Send a textIn the 1980s, history didn’t arrive on your phone. It arrived on a rolling television cart that wheeled into your classroom and got parked next to the chalkboard like a sacred object.On…
S4E1 The Star Trek Dude Was A Liar. Probably
Send a textWe were going to be chased into quicksand by Bigfoot during an earthquake! And Spock was there learching around to narrate our demise. Marc joins us this week as we look back at these GenX…
S3E24 Great Selection of "Reabok" Shoes! Again
Send a textSomewhere between the Diamond Ballroom and the North Canadian River in OKC lies Mecca for a 12 year old boy. The double space before the beginning of each sentence here lets you in that a…
S3E23 Live at the Myriad! Well… “Live”; Milli Vanilli Is Sort Of Up For A Grammy Again, Again!
Send a textThis week on *Free Nights and Weekends*, we get ready for The Grammys! We welcome in longtime friend and veteran musician Rick Toops — and the two dive headfirst into one of the wildest…
S3E22 Stick Your Hand All The Way Up There! The Sesame Street Episode! The rerun we don’t even deserve!
Send a textSee he was a bird and he was big, get it? That’s important. In this episode, we dig through the tucked away memories of Sesame Street, touch on the future of *America’s 4,230th favorite…
S3E21 Stick A Fork In It! FNAW’s 2025 Recap!
Send a textAnd that’s a wrap on 2025! From Sesame Street to Toys ‘R’ Us treasure hunts to the white-knuckle thrill of Driver’s Ed, VBS, and an eighth grade year that was really hard to believe are…
S3E20 Christmas Reboot!
Send a textA look back at the Christmas specials we grew up with and a heartwarming tale of an Ohio Christmas. Featuring a familiar voice and Scott schooling a Buckeye stater about the greatness of…
S3E19 5¢ always seemed like a deal. A Second Look At A Classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas
Send a textA Charlie Brown Christmas has been airing for 60 years, and we all agree it’s a classic. What we don’t agree on is how a cartoon with no visible adults, a depressed eight-year-old, and a…
S3E18 Inside the Cathedral of 80s Childhood: Toys “R” Us
Send a textThis week on Free Nights and Weekends, we step back inside the cathedral of 80s childhood: Toys “R” Us. If you grew up in that era, this wasn’t just a store — it was the place where your…
S3E17 Live at the Myriad! Well… “Live”; Milli Vanilli Is Sort Of Up For A Grammy Again
Send a textThis week on *Free Nights and Weekends*, Scott is joined by longtime friend and veteran musician Rick Toops — and the two dive headfirst into one of the wildest pop-culture stories of the…
S3E17 Thanksgiving Leftovers: The Fuel of War
Send a textThis week on the Free Nights and Weekends Podcast, Scott dives straight into the retail mayhem of a true Gen-X Black Friday — back when parents fought strangers for Cabbage Patch Kids,…
S3E16 The Dog, The Thumb, and The Yellow Envelope
Send a textScott takes a solo dive into 1980s photography: Fotomat drive-up kiosks, disposable cameras, one-hour photo labs, and the unforgettable feeling of opening a yellow envelope filled with…
S3E15 KITT, Knight Rider, and the Return of a Legend
Send a textMichael Knight is back on the highway—whether we asked for it or not. In this week’s episode of Free Nights and Weekends, Scott and Adam dust off the Trans Am, fire up the red scanner…
S3E14 Northbound and Down, A Second Look
Send a textDid you have a ridiculous drivers ed experience in high school? I can't imagine it tops this. Hang on as some voices from the past come together to retell how we all survived the craziest…
S3E13 He Can't Catch Us All; Determining The Street Value Of Tootsie Rolls. It’s Halloween!
Send a textThis week we welcome the guys from Fried Okla to unwrap Halloween. — when every parent swore there were razor blades in apples, LSD in Smarties. Scott revisits trick-or-treating in…
S3E10 Great Scott! The Movie From Our Childhood Is 40 Years Old!
Send a textFire up the flux capacitor, because Back to the Future just turned 40—and we’re feeling old. Scott and Marc hop in the time machine to revisit 1985, when Michael J. Fox ruled the screen,…
S3E9 YouTube Killed The Music Video Star; The Final Gasp Of MTV
Send a textMTV didn’t just play music videos—it invented pop culture. From “Video Killed the Radio Star” to “The Real World,” we look back at the rise and inevitable collapse of MTV as YouTube and…
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Free Nights And Weekends has published 56 episodes since October 2024, covering topics in Comedy, Documentary.
Free Nights And Weekends is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 35m.
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